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Batlle Gómez, Eduard
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ICREA Research Professor at IRB (Institut de Recerca Biomèdica de Barcelona). Life & Medical Sciences
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Since 2004, working as a Research Professor at ICREA (Catalan Institute for Research and Advanced Studies) and Principal Investigator and Programme Coordinator at the Oncology Programme at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona).
1993: BSc. Universitat de Barcelona, 1994-1999: PhD fellow at Institut Municipal de Investigació Mèdica (IMIM). 1999: Associate professor in Biochemistry –Life Siciences at the University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. 1999- 2000 PostDoctoral Fellow at Miguel Beato’s group - Institut für Molekularbiologie und Tumorforschung, Marburg. Germany. 2000-2004: PostDoctoral Fellow at Hans Clevers Lab, Netherlands Institute for Developmental Biology, Utrecht, NL.
Research activity in the last ten years has focused on the characterization of the mechanisms that drive colorectal cancer initiation and progression. Among other findings, Eduard Batlle originally discovered the transcription factor Snail as a suppressor of E-cadherin expression in tumor cells
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Research Interest
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Colorectal Cancer (CRC) is one of the leading causes of death by cancer worldwide. Most colorectal tumours develop as benign lesions but a small proportion progress to more malignant stages when the appropriate genetic alterations occur. Our lab studies the initiation of CRC and its progression from the early stages to the formation of aggressive tumours. The ultimate goal is to obtain information that allows us to design new therapeutic and diagnostic tools.
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KeyWords
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Colorectal cancer, stem cells, Wnt signalling, Eph/ephrin receptors
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ERC Codes
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Biological basis of non-communicable diseases, except for neural/psychiatric, immunity-related & met
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